About This Project
About This Project
This project explores electricity trends across the United States and in three specific states — California, Texas, and Virginia. Electricity data plays a critical role in understanding how energy policy, infrastructure investments, and consumer behavior affect price, consumption, carbon emissions, and utility customers over time.
By examining retail prices, customer accounts, CO₂ emissions, and energy generation patterns, this project provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. energy landscape and highlights both broad national patterns and unique state-level dynamics.
Why This Project Matters
Electricity is essential for modern life, powering homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure. With rising concerns about sustainability, energy equity, and grid resilience, understanding how electricity systems evolve is more important than ever.
This project: - Shows how electricity prices vary by sector and by state
- Reveals changes in electricity customer accounts over time
- Highlights state-level trends in CO₂ emissions and energy use - Allows comparison between national and state patterns to inform policy and planning
These insights can be useful for: - Energy researchers and analysts
- Policy makers and regulators
- Students and educators studying energy systems
- Anyone interested in the dynamics of U.S. electricity markets
How This Site Is Built
This website was created using:
- Quarto — a modern publishing system for reproducible documents
- R (tidyverse, ggplot2, here, dplyr, tidyr) — for data cleaning & visualization
- EIA API Data — energy data sourced directly from the U.S. Energy Information Administration
- A modular file structure to keep data, code, and outputs organized
The source code and data are publicly available on GitHub:
https://github.com/slicesofdata/eia-167-2025
Contact
If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions for future work, feel free to connect:
- 📧 Email: your_email@example.com
- 🐦 Twitter/X: @yourhandle
- 💼 LinkedIn: yourprofile
- 🧠 GitHub: slicesofdata/eia-167-2025
Thank you for exploring this project!